Aristotle on Criteria of Moral Good
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10433334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leo R Ward (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 476-498 |
| Publication date | 1968-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500025195 |
| OpenAlex | W2144478357 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Aristotle'S attitude and procedure in dealing with moral standards suggest that he assumed the following points: a) That he was speaking of something real and given; b) to be discovered and formulated and, if possible, applied; c) that in fact, standards satisfactory for human life — at least satisfactory and perhaps unsurpassable — had already been embodied in Grecian life and art and thought; and if this is the case, then in regard to moral standards, as in regard to many problems, Aristotle is a preserver and savior rather than an innovator and is like “prudence” as he delineates it; d) that if there is a divine source of these Grecian known and lived standards, these are just and true; if there is not, or if we do not know whether there is, they remain just and true; in any case, at least some of them are “by nature.”
Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Innovator · Law and economics · Moral standards · Political science · Prudence · Sociology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |